CANADA'S WAR EFFORT
A HUGE EXPENDITURE RECORD APPROPRIATION OTTAWA. March 26. (Received March 27, at 8 a.m.) The House passed a 1,300,000,000dollar war appropriation Bill by 167 votes to 8 and sent it to the Senate. This is the largest sum ever introduced in the House of Commons. Answering a charge that the poorer people are making the greatest war sacrifice, the Finance Minister, Mr J. L. llsley, declared that conscription of wealth to-day was far .greater in Canada than conscription of manpower. He said that Canadians wore being taxed at the rate of 900,000,000 dollars annually, and during 1941-42 the rate would be 1,000,000,000 dollars. The Prime Minister, Mr Mackenzie King, replying to American isolationists’ criticism, declared that Canada on a population basis was providing two dollars’ worth of aid to Britain for every dollar from the United States. The Dominion’s total war expenditure would be equivalent to that of the United States.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23845, 27 March 1941, Page 10
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